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Elites and Economic Policies in Indonesia and Nigeria, 1966-1998

Fuady, Ahmad Helmy (Igitur, 2012-10-11)

This study analyses why Indonesia and Nigeria experienced contrasting development trajectories from 1966 to 1998, despite their similar socio-economic and political conditions. During this period, Indonesia was more ...
Information and Communication Technologies and Poverty: The Telecentre Movement in Java

Santoso, Widjajanti M (Igitur, 2012-10-11)

This article discusses telecentre development in Indonesia but focuses on case studies of telecentres in Java. The research uses twelve indicators from Rao (UNCTAD, 2006: 186) to help illustrate telecentre development. ...
Mapping of Occupations of the Populations in Urban Poor Areas

Nagib, Laila (Igitur, 2012-10-11)

The goal of this study is to analyse and to map the occupations of the populations in the urban poor areas, and to analyse the welfare of workers in terms of several indicators of decent work. The study uses the ILO concept ...
Social Networks and the Live Reef Food Fish Trade: Examining Sustainability

Radjawali, Irendra (Igitur, 2012-10-11)

This research offers a new perspective in examining sustainability by understanding and examining the social networks. By examining social networks it is possible to identify different interactions among agents that ...
Is the Past in Another Country? A Case Study of Rural-Urban Affinity on Mudik Lebaran in Middle Java

Yulianto, Vissia I. (Igitur, 2012-10-11)

Each year millions of Indonesians return to their anchestors and family homes to celebrate Lebaran, the end of Muslim fasthing month. Not only Muslims, but all Indonesians have adopted this as an annual ritual of reconnecting, ...
Flows and Movements in the Lands below the Winds

Tirtosudarmo, Riwanto (Igitur, 2012-10-11)

Although there are many views about what constitutes the Malay world, my view in this perplexing issue is simple. I perceive it as a socio-geographical space in which a loose inter-connectedness, which has occurred throughout ...
The Economic Decolonisation of Indonesia: a Bird’s-eye View

Lindblad, J. Thomas (Igitur, 2012-10-11)

This contribution offers an abridged account of the process of economic decolonisation as it unfolded between 1945 and 1959, from the proclamation of independence until the nationalisation of the vast majority of Dutch-owned ...
Introduction: Understanding Indonesia

Epstein, Stephen J. (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

This special issue of the Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities (JISSH) has its origins in a series of seminars jointly sponsored in 2005 and 2006 by the Asian Studies Institute (ASI) of the Victoria University ...
If Indonesia is Too Hard to Understand, Let’s Start with Bali

MacRae, Graeme (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

Stereotypical representations, especially those by the media, are for most outside observers, the means and an obstacle to understanding Indonesia. One way around such stereotypes is to look at the way Indonesians themselves ...
Foreign Policy, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia

Anwar, Dewi Fortuna (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

The relations between Islam and Democracy in Indonesia and their implications for the country’s foreign policy have attracted considerable attention in recent years. In the early years of his first presidential term, Susilo ...
Understanding Indonesia: the Role of Economic Nationalism

Thee, Kian Wie (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

In this paper it is argued that economic nationalism in Indonesia, in its various manifestations, has been an important factor in determining particular economic policies since Indonesia’s independence up to the present. ...
Participating in Parliamentary Politics: Experiences of Indonesian Women 1995–2010

Davies, Sharyn Graham; Idrus, Nurul Ilmi (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

This article concerns itself with women’s participation in politics and, more specifically, the representation of women in elected legislatures, in Indonesia between 1995 and 2010. The article gives readers a brief overview ...
Music for the Pria Dewasa: Changes and Continuities in Class and Pop Music Genres

Baulch, Emma (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

This paper presents Rolling Stone Indonesia (RSI) and places it in an historical context to tease out some changes and continuities in Indonesian middle-class politics since the beginning of the New Order. Some political ...
Crouch, Harold. Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto.

Ratnawati, Tri (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

Review of Crouch, Harold. (2010). Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 390 pp (including bibliography and index) ISBN 9789812309204 and 9812309209
The Construction of History under Indonesia’s New Order: the Making of the Lubang Buaya Official Narrative

Djakababa, Yosef M. (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

This study examines the emergence of the New Order’s official narrative of the Lubang Buaya killings, focusing above all, on the origins of the story. Despite the unclear, controversial nature of the event, which for years ...
Business Opportunities for Halal Products in the Global Market: Muslim Consumer Behaviour and Halal Food Consumption

Soesilowati, Endang S. (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

Halal products, halal confectionary and food ingredients, and the syari`ah system have attracted much attention among members of Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) countries. It has been estimated that the trade ...
Social Transformation in the Northern Coastal Cities of Java: a Comparative Study in Cirebon and Gresik

Tirtosudarmo, Riwanto (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

Java, the most densely populated island of insular Southeast Asia—the Indonesian archipelago—is a well known historical site for its embracing of world civilisations: Indic, Sinic and Western. The important commodities ...
Local Government Responses to HIV and AIDS in the Border Areas: a Case Study of Batam

Situmorang, Augustina; Purwaningsih, Sri Sunarti (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

Improving the welfare of the people who live in the border areas has been a concern of the Indonesian government for the past few years. Compared with other areas, most of the border areas are relatively less developed, ...
Nationalism, Democratisation and Primordial Sentiment in Indonesia: Problems of Ethnicity versus Indonesian-ness (the cases of Aceh, Riau, Papua and Bali)

Gayatri, Irine Hiraswari (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

Indonesia has been dealing with ethnicity issues since the early days of independence. A local uprising in 1950 in South Maluku, initiated by Republik Maluku Selatan, is evidence of an early serious attempt at separatism ...
The Social Life of Reconciliation: Religion and the Struggle for Social Justice in Post-New Order Indonesia

Thufail, Fadjar I. (Igitur, 2011-03-22)

Anthropologists of law have long studied reconciliation to understand how people resolve disputes. Studies on conflict resolution and on reconciliation examine a general process of reconciliation deployed to restore harmony ...

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